Memorial Day is a specific American holiday, going back to the Civil War.

Our overseas Anglospheric readers celebrate Remembrance Day on November 11 (Armistice Day in the US) in honor of a soul-destroying, seemingly pointless slaughter that destroyed the old order between 1914 and 1918.

But by 1914, the United States had already been memorializing its own soul-destroying, seemingly pointless slaughter for fifty years.

After the war, the North tried to grant political equality to blacks (this was called Reconstruction) but after a reconciliation occurred between Northern and Southern whites, the North gave up trying to enforce this. (This was called the failure of Reconstruction).

At the present moment legal immigrants are being admitted in their millions by the Obama Administration while the economy is tanking. The illegal immigrants are also staying, thanks to Obama’s Administrative Amnesty.

It’s not only random Mexicans and Central Americans that will displace young veterans from their jobs—it’s also their Afghan and Iraqi “allies”—or even enemies— who will be entering as “refugees.” Thousands of such refugees have been issued, and there are calls to admit many, many more: